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2009-01-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

When The Porcupines Come Back To Telluride

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-01-03 13:07|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 worst of all is they're attracted to outhouses - very disconcerting when you stumble out there at 2:00am.

Posted by Thetch B. Hayes6224 2009-01-03 13:43|| 2009-01-03 13:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd figure this was another come on for Gerbil Warming if it wasn't for the "harsh winter" excuse.

Something doesn't compute.

Posted by AlanC 2009-01-03 13:52|| 2009-01-03 13:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I've read accounts of porcupines getting into cars in the old days when steering wheels were made of wood and chewing up the entire wheel in a night or two. Salt from the drivers' hands attracted them.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-01-03 13:55|| 2009-01-03 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Well - Telluride aways has that magic mushroom festival where the Dead Heads go out and pick them and waltz about....
Maybe the porcupines are just mad about them taking all the recreation out of the wilderness?

Posted by 3dc 2009-01-03 14:28|| 2009-01-03 14:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Porcupines have always been destructive. It is just the lame brain liberals are noticing it and are blaming it on the cause of the year.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-03 14:34|| 2009-01-03 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Unleash the fisher cats!

Posted by regular joe 2009-01-03 15:23|| 2009-01-03 15:23|| Front Page Top

#7 What's the difference between a Porche and a Porcupine?

The Porcupine has the pricks on the outside.

Posted by Vespasian Tholutch3906 2009-01-03 15:37|| 2009-01-03 15:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Darth,

Agreed!

Posted by Poison Reverse 2009-01-03 15:47|| 2009-01-03 15:47|| Front Page Top

#9 VT3906 - good one :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-03 16:03|| 2009-01-03 16:03|| Front Page Top

#10 #7 Vespasian - definitely Snark o' the Day™ material. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-03 16:06|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-03 16:06|| Front Page Top

#11 VT, that should be updated for today to read "What's the difference between a Prius and a porcupine?"

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-01-03 16:43|| 2009-01-03 16:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Rambler, works either way....

Posted by USN,Ret. 2009-01-03 17:03|| 2009-01-03 17:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Porcupines are good survival food. Bonk them on the head with a stick. Burn off their quills over a fire. Then you can zip them open and gut them. Meat does not taste like chicken, however. More like spruce bark up here. We have some wandering about up in the valley. My dawgs learned a harrrrrd lesson this summer about attacking them. Heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-01-03 18:38|| 2009-01-03 18:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Not kosher, but that doesn't matter when survival is at stake. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-03 23:14|| 2009-01-03 23:14|| Front Page Top

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